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English possessive pronouns are usually treated as adjective pronouns, whereas they are in reality noun pro-nouns or pro-nouns, but they replace only possessive case nouns with which they are correlated. Compare: This is the teacher's (his, her) bicycle. This bicycle is the teacher's (his, hers).
The combinability and functions of the possessive pronouns and the "possessive case" nouns are almost identical, which justifies the view that the pronouns in question are possessive case opposites of the personal pronouns. The only argument we can put forward against that view and in favour of the opinion that possessive pronouns are a separate group, is as follows.
Modern English differs from Old English and from other Modern Germanic languages in having two sets of possessive pronouns - the conjoint possessive pronouns my, thy, his, her, its, our, your, their and the absolute possessive pronouns mine, thine, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs.

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Therefore, it would, probably, be more in keeping witJi language facts (a) to treat my (mine), her (hers), our (ours), etc. not as the possessive case of personal pronouns but as a subclass of pronouns; (b) to regard my - mine, her - hers, etc. as a kind of case opposemes.
Ukrainian possessive pronouns include: мт, meiu, ваш, наш, ceiii, його, и, ix, 'ixniu. According to their grammar characteristics they are close to adjectives, e.g.: бажаю щастя всгм вашим родичам. Possessive pronouns have the categories of gender and number and are declined according to six cases (мт, мое, моя, мог; Miii, мого, моему ...).
Following is the contrastive analysis of possessive pronouns in both languages. In both languages they render the belonging and perform the function of attribute or the nominal part of the compound predicate.
The English language has a particular form of the possessive pronoun for each of mentioned functions: for the attribute - my, his, her, its, our, your, their, for the nominal part of predicate - mine, his, hers, its, ours, yours, theirs (these forms are sometimes used in the role of the postpositive attribute with the preposition "of - the house of mine).
In Ukrainian both functions are performed by one form of possessive pronouns -мт, meiu and others. The pronoun of the third person plural has two parallel forms ix and ixniu.
Ukrainian grammars point out among possessive pronouns only such words as мт, meiu, наш, ваш, ixniu, сет. What concerns the words його (книжка), Ti (тмната), ixniu (incmumym) that are actually the reconsidered forms of the genitive case of personal pronouns of the third person they are referred to possessive pronouns but with some warning. From the real possessive pronouns they differ by the fact that they are indeclinable and are not coordinated with the modified noun in number, gender and case.
In Ukrainian when there appears the need to render the belonging of some object to some person, the possessive pronoun ceiii is used. It is used irrespective of the doer's person, e.g.: я виконав свою роботу; ти взяв ceiii зошит; ein в1дкрив ceiii портфель and
мо on. In English we do not have the direct correspondence to the I'lonoun ceiii and in each case the possessive pronoun of the person who is the doer of the action is used, e.g.: / did my work; you took your book; he opened his bag. In majority of cases (e.g., before nouns denoting parts of clothing or parts of the body, family relations and others) the usage of possessive pronouns is a norm. In such combinations possessive pronouns are very close to articles according lo their usage. Compare:
ВЫ поклавруку в кишеню. - Не put his hand into his pocket.
Зтмтъ пальто. - Take off your coat.
Я говорив про це батъков1. -1 told my father about it [5; 61-62].